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Here are some of the stories that grabbed readers’ attention this week.
One of the most widely publicized and potentially most expensive criminal trials in recent Clark County history begins today in Superior Court.
Brent Ward Luyster — a local man who has a long, violent criminal history — faces three counts of first-degree aggravated murder in the July 15, 2016, shooting deaths of Joseph Mark Lamar, 38; Lamar’s partner, Janell Renee Knight, 43; and Zachary David Thompson, 36, at Lamar’s home southeast of Woodland.
He is also accused of wounding Thompson’s significant other, Breanne L.A. Leigh, then 32, who suffered a gunshot wound to the left side of her face.
The former Vancouver Department of Fish and Wildlife building has a new purpose. The city intends to purchase the 25,000-square-foot building for $4.3 million and open a day center for homeless residents.
The building, 2018 Grand Blvd., was vacated by the agency in 2016 when it relocated to the Port of Ridgefield. The property was then purchased by Watumull Properties Corp., a Vancouver property management company.
A Vancouver man who impersonated a police officer as a ruse to kidnap and rape women was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison.
Shannon “Shawn” Stover, 47, was facing a third-strike offense but negotiated a plea deal to avoid a life sentence. Under the state’s three-strikes law, offenders convicted three times of certain violent and sexual felonies receive mandatory life sentences.
Port of Vancouver commissioner candidate Kris Greene said that a misplaced photo on campaign material sent out to voters on behalf of his opponent is part of a “broader, more insidious problem” of “narrowly focused national interest groups funded by out-of-state billionaires” involved in the race.
Earlier this week, the political action committee affiliated with the Seattle-based Washington Conservation Voters mailed out its “2017 Election Guide” for the race. WCV is actively supporting Don Orange in the race, and the four-page guide praised his opposition to a proposed oil terminal at the port while criticizing Greene’s past support for the project and his ties to oil companies. On the cover of the guide is a panoramic picture of the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Elaina Tellup was so busy worrying about everyone else’s well-being that she ignored signs that her own health was declining.
In summer 2016, Tellup was dealing with the stress of her sister undergoing her third surgery for a heart condition and her brother being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Tellup was trying to be the stable one for her mom — the healthy kid.
But once everything else in her life settled down, Tellup realized she was anything but well.
